Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 2 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 3 | And we were right in the front row and that ruddy music she had ! |
| 4 | No doubt some of them were rather on the dreary side but that is not the full story by any means . |
| 5 | The GPs were as divided as they were independent , and being geographically isolated from each other were rather like the French peasants described by Marx ( 1953 ) as ‘ potatoes in a sack ’ . |
| 6 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 7 | It had been written by a Syrian monk around 500 ad with the idea that contemplative monks were most like the highest orders of angels , closest to the Godhead in heaven . |
| 8 | When the storm broke they were literally in the front line , but they continued to stock The Satanic Verses and in many cases display it prominently . |
| 9 | You were only in the other room . |
| 10 | They did n't do many subjects together and were only in the same group for French and history . |
| 11 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 12 | The concentration and total amount of caecal and colonic SCFAs were less in the low fibre diet rats ( Table II , p= 0.001 ) . |
| 13 | On Sunday evening nearly all the apostles were together in the upper room where Jesus appeared to them . |
| 14 | They were together in the big cupboard behind the staff room , refilling the sugar bowls . |
| 15 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 16 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 17 | Yeah I mean me I it may be inappropriate at this moment in time to say we will do it now because of obvious reasons but prior to the recession it was an ongoing thing that the the board were in through the general manager were actually writing to many companies . |
| 18 | We never saw Chilete until suddenly we were in among the grey ghosts of houses , the road rutted now and full of mud . |
| 19 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 20 | We were down at the main road . |
| 21 | In particular , the Home-Grown Cereals Authority reports exports of wheat 30 per cent were down on the previous harvest — mostly due to dearer prices . |
| 22 | The sharply lower rhodium price depressed revenues in the chemicals and refining business and profits for the year were down on the previous period . |
| 23 | Ross admits to being a little disappointed at the level of basic skills when he arrived , adding : ‘ A lot of the mistakes were down to the mental approach and lack of concentration , but , having said that , the attitude and determination of the players has been excellent throughout the season . ’ |
| 24 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 25 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 26 | With only two weeks to go they were down to the cosmetic touches . |
| 27 | Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road . |
| 28 | She did not speak again until she and Tug were down in the big kitchen . |
| 29 | So people who were generally in the big box knew about it ? |
| 30 | They were away from the main road , walking briskly across cul-de-sacs , and through the small , linking passageways , between the wide , high-fenced gardens of the area . |